MINNESOTA 4, CHICAGO 0 AT CHICAGO

Date:  Tuesday, June 15.

Batting stars:  Rich Rollins was 1-for-3 with a home run (his third) and a walk.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with a home run, his eleventh.  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a home run, his eleventh.

Pitching star:  Mudcat Grant pitched a complete game shutout, giving up five hits and no walks with three strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Eddie Fisher struck out two in two perfect innings.  Bob Locker pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, allowing one walk with one strikeout.  Pete Ward was 2-for-4.

The game:  Oliva homered in the first and Allison homered in the second to give the Twins a 2-0 lead.  Jerry Kindall drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth.  Meanwhile, Grant pitched four perfect innings before giving up a single to Ward leading off the fifth.  Moose Skowron followed with a single, but a strikeout/throw out double play ended the threat.  The White Sox again put two on in the sixth but did not threaten after that.  Rollins hit a home run in the ninth.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-4.  Joe Nossek, again replacing Jimmie Hall, was 1-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a run.

Record:  The win made the Twins 35-20 and kept them in first place, 1.5 games ahead of Chicago.